Karstadt is one of the premier department store chains in the German retail industry, running a number of large general and sports stores in German inner city locations.
Simmel AG, which is headquartered in Chemnitz, already operates 31 successful supermarkets, but is definitely moving away from home turf with their 32nd - an E-Center with a sales area of 3,650 square meters.
Right now, retailers face extremely tough competition. They are constantly challenged to cut costs, optimize processes and motivate customers more strongly to spend money. To make retailers more competitive, at the end of 2006 IBM will launch the first total store solution on the German retail market.
At the end of January this year, Wincor Nixdorf’s Wincor World 2006, the biggest self-service technology show in Europe, was once again a runaway success, attracting over 7,000 visitors from 50 countries around the world.
This year’s Self-Service Universe saw more than 300 kiosk-minded retailers and financial institution self-service experts come to Athens to listen to two days packed with presentations based on real life kiosk experience and projects
